By Jackie Rapetti, News Correspondent
Monday, April 18
6:30 p.m.
Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) officers responded to the 17th floor of International Village (INV) after a caller reported seeing items thrown out of a window. Officers found a 20-year-old student in possession of marijuana, smoking pipes, a vaporizer, vodka and beer. He provided NUPD with information about his dealer and will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
Thursday, April 21
2:15 a.m.
Officers found a 21-year-old student vomiting on the sidewalk at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street. She told officers she consumed vodka earlier that night and was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance. She will be reported to OSCCR.
5:30 a.m.
Residence hall staff reported two people on the lower roof of Speare Hall. An NUPD officer found two residents in their room with their window open leading to the roof. The students were uncooperative and claimed they hadn’t been on the roof. They will be reported to OSCCR.
5 p.m.
A student reported someone broke the window of his car, which was parked in the Columbus Lot. The car was ransacked but nothing was missing.
6:30 p.m.
A staff member from the O’Bryant African-American Institute reported a co-worker’s cousin became disorderly while visiting the office and refused to leave. The visiting family member was escorted off campus and issued a trespass warning. The cousin reported her watch was stolen from the office when she visited weeks earlier but her cousin, the employee she was visiting, said she doubted that had occurred.
Friday, April 22
8:30 a.m.
NUPD detectives met with various staff connected with the Registrar’s Office and Student Affairs to discuss the forgery of a transcript. Officers gathered evidence that proved the 22-year-old student had forged her transcript. She will be reported to OSCCR.
7:30 p.m.
An NUPD detective met with a student in INV to discuss an ongoing drug investigation. While there, the officer found and confiscated a small amount of marijuana and alcohol. The student will be reported to OSCCR.
8:30 p.m.
NUPD officers were visiting students in a room in INV. Officers found the two residents, 18 and 19, in possession of beer and vodka, and one had a fake ID. Both students will be reported to OSCCR.
10 p.m.
A resident assistant (RA) detected the strong odor of marijuana coming from a room inside 319 Huntington Ave. NUPD officers responded and confiscated rum and a 30 pack of beer from two 19-year-old students. They initially denied smoking but eventually turned over a small bag of marijuana and will be reported to OSCCR.
10:30 p.m.
NUPD officers were called to the sixth floor men’s bathroom in the YMCA, where an intoxicated 19-year-old student was vomiting. He had consumed 12 beers during the day and will be reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, April 23
1 a.m.
An NUPD officer saw a man squatting in front of a car on Gainsborough Street, who appeared to be tampering with the license plate and ran when he saw the officer. Officers caught the student and found tools and a knife in his pocket. He admitted he was trying to steal the vanity license plate because he liked it. The owner of the car was notified and the student will be reported to OSCCR.
4:30 a.m.
A proctor in Davenport A reported a man sleeping in the lobby. NUPD officers found a 19-year-old student, who said he came home without his ID and decided to sleep in the lobby until his friends returned. Officers also found he had a fake ID. He will be reported to OSCCR.
Sunday, April 24
1:30 a.m.
NUPD officers responded to 650 Columbus Ave. where they found a 19-year-old student vomiting. She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance and will be reported to OSCCR.
5:30 a.m.
A security guard posted on the footbridge by the Columbus Parking Lot radioed in to report a suspicious man who seemed to be tampering with a car. The guard saw the man slash the tires on a car and then go to another car and slash more tires. NUPD officers arrested Byron Martin, 22, of Oregon, as he left the parking lot. He was slightly intoxicated and said he was visiting his brother at Northeastern, but couldn’t remember his brother’s name or residence. The next day, the Boston Police Department (BPD) reported several cars had tires slashed between Massachusetts Avenue and Copley Place.
10:30 p.m.
A student from the Berklee School of Music reported he was hit by pellets fired out of a window from 118 Hemenway St. where several Northeastern students reside. NUPD officers found four students with two airsoft guns in their apartment. The students initially denied shooting out of the window but later admitted that they were tired of shooting the target in their apartment. They said they didn’t realize anyone was hit. They will be reported to OSCCR. The News has learned the students involved in this case were later suspended.
Tuesday, April 26
5 p.m.
A student reported her car, parked on Camden Street near Columbus Avenue, was broken into and her GPS and stereo were stolen.
Thursday, April 28
2 a.m.
A 19-year-old student was vomiting in the stairwell of Loftman Hall. She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and will be reported to OSCCR.
ENTRY OF THE WEEK
7:15 a.m.
A proctor in Speare Hall reported an intoxicated, naked 18-year-old female in a male student’s room. NUPD officers found the male student standing in the hall. He said that a few hours earlier the girl walked in naked, gave him a hug and a kiss and went to sleep in his bed. He continued working on a paper. She had been signed in by someone who lives on a different floor in Speare Hall. Officers found the person that signed her in, who said the two were drinking but he fell asleep. He didn’t know why she left the room. She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance and will be reported to OSCCR.
Friday, April 29
11:30 a.m.
Two roommates in Willis Hall found the credit card number of one and the social security number of the other in their former roommate’s desk as they cleaned out to move. NUPD officers contacted the former roommate who admitted to stealing the credit card number because he discovered his camera missing and assumed his roommate stole it. He said if by the time the semester was over he still hadn’t found it he was going to use the card to buy a new camera. He later found the camera, which he said he had misplaced, and never used the credit card information. No fraudulent purchases were made on the credit card. He couldn’t explain why he had the other roommate’s social security number. He will be reported to OSCCR.
4:15 p.m.
A student left her cell phone on the counter at the Student Accounts Office in Richards Hall. When she came back 10 minutes later, it was gone. Officers looked at the security camera footage and found the next person in line took it. It turned out to be a friend of the student’s and the cell phone was returned a few hours later.
7 p.m.
An RA in Willis Hall detected a strong odor of marijuana coming from a room. NUPD officers found a 20-year-old student, who said she just finished smoking a blunt. She will be reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, April 30
2 a.m.
NUPD officers found a 19-year-old student urinating in Speare Place while on his way back to campus from a club where he used his fake ID. He will be reported to OSCCR.
3:30 a.m.
A caller reported a man throwing burning items out of a window at 106 St. Stephen St. NUPD officers found the sidewalk littered with charred remains of hundreds of pieces of paper. They found a student inside who admitted to throwing his class notes out of his window in celebration of his upcoming graduation. He went and picked up his papers and will be reported to OSCCR.
11 a.m.
A student reported he left his headphones unattended at InfoCommons in Snell Library on April 27 for about 10 minutes. They were missing when he returned.
Monday, May 2
2 a.m.
A proctor in INV reported a 19-year-old student entered the building heavily intoxicated. He was evaluated by EMTs and did not require medical attention. He will be reported to OSCCR.
Tuesday, May 3
4:30 p.m.
A caller reported two men arguing about drugs on Columbus Avenue near INV. NUPD officers responded and witnesses pointed to one man who then walked into Ruggles Station. Keith Wilson, a 35-year-old resident of Jamaica Plain, was arrested on a previous warrant from Wrentham District Court for a burglary case. He said the person he was arguing with was someone he was trying to buy drugs from.
5 p.m.
NUPD officers saw an unattended car parked illegally with several municipal street signs in the back seat. They waited for the owner, a 22-year-old student, to come out so they could question him. He admitted to collecting the signs over the years, because some had his last name and another said Northeastern Blvd. NUPD officers took the signs and the student will be reported to OSCCR.
Wednesday, May 4
2 p.m.
BPD officers interrupted a man attempting to steal a motor scooter around Tremont Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The man ran and NUPD officers found the 24-year-old, with no university affiliation, hiding in the Camden Parking Lot. BPD officers arrived and arrested him.
Thursday, May 5
11:45 p.m.
NUPD officers found an unconscious man on the sidewalk in front of Conor Larkin’s Bar, covered in his own vomit. The 23-year-old student was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance and will be reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, May 7
4 p.m.
A female graduate student reported she returned to a second floor office in the Forsyth Building and found her purse and its contents were strewn across the room, but nothing was missing. She called NUPD back two days later and said she didn’t realize her camera had been in her purse and was missing. NUPD officers are investigating the case.
